Skye, Greshornish Point
Building(S) (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Post Medieval), Farmstead (Post Medieval), Field System (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Greshornish Point
Classification Building(S) (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Post Medieval), Farmstead (Post Medieval), Field System (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 71239
Site Number NG35SW 59
NGR NG 34494 54837
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71239
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (25 July 1990)
NG35SW 59 3449 5483.
This farmstead is situated about 150m above the shore of Loch Greshornish and 600m NNE of Greshornish Farm. The remains of three buildings are visible, one of which, the best preserved, has subsequently been converted into a sheepfold. Measuring some 13.6m in length and 3.6m in breadth, its walls still stand 1.2m in height and its entrance was in the NNE end. What are probably the remains of an earlier building protrude at right-angles from beneath the ESE wall and there is an enclosure on the WNW. The third building lies on the line of a field-bank some 30m to the WSW. Around the farmstead there is a series of large fields, which extend across the terraces to the S, as far as the improved fields of Greshornish Farm.
(WAT90 1387-90)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 25 July 1990.
Note (17 October 1996)
A farmstead, comprising two unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xvi). One unroofed building, one unroofed structure which may be a building, one enclosure and a field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 17 October 1996.
